Distrssing Your Photos

I love distressing my photos on any scrap booking project or other pictures I frame. The frame I used on this project has a flat section in the middle (no glass) and a raised metal edge. Their was already a picture on the frame so I just mod podged over it. This frame was also a great find at Ross for $10.00.

See below for distressing

your photos.

The photo on the left is the original. I used photo shop to crop and removed the color and added a little red and yellow into the black and white tones. I then printed the photo right onto regular white card stock to give it that old time finish.
Steps left to right: I used "Vintage Photo" Distress Ink and took a piece of material (anything soft works, like gauze, sponge or a sock) and dabbed a little in the ink pad and then rubbed it along the edges of the photo. Then I held the photo flat and rubbed the ink pad along the edge to darken the edges a little. Using Mod Podge (Matte finish) I took a sponge brush and brushed the flat, middle part of the frame, lay ed the photo down over top the mod podge and pressed down along the edges to push out all the bubbles. To secure the photo I covered the whole photo in mod podge.